Sad and Good news all in One!

Sad news first - DigitalArts Cafe was hacked one too many times and Melo the owner has made the hard decision to close the store. As of today the forum and gallery are closed, you can still view the layouts but no more can be posted.

Melo was great and gave me a great opportunity to try my hand at designing which I have really really enjoyed. But I have decided that from now on I will be mainly scrapping as I missed it when designing and occasionally I will have a freebie or two here on my blog.

But the good news.... Well, I can't leave without some noise being made can I ...
so from today til the 15th August my complete store is on sale for 50% off! So click on the image to go shopping, and whilst there, check out the other designers stores for more amazing deals!



Here are some of the kits you can get now for a GREAT price...

Thanks for being with me on this adventure and keep checking back, I am sure I will still be designing on for free in future! ;)

New Kit - and it's FREE for 48 hours!

Yep, you read right, I have a new kit out and it is free from NOW until Thursday June 25 (12pm US Central Time!) Click on the image to go and pick it up at DigitalArts Cafe, but don't rush off too quick, I have something else to show you before you click and run


Here are a couple of the layouts my CT has created with the kit
The first two are by Benita, thank you so much! Check out the extraction on them both, awesome!




And these three are by Dinphy! (btw, she has a special offer on you might want to check out on her blog), where today she also has featured her layouts, with a bit more background about them, check it out! Thank you Dinphy, I love them all!


But that is not all! I put together these bragbook pages, which also have gone in the store today, and for just $1.99 you get 9 bragbook pages (7x5 in), and if you hurry they are on offer with 20% off until Friday 26th June. Again, I have linked the image for you!
CU soon (oh and a little love can go a long way, you know where the comments button is, don't be shy!)

B-day, Sale and a Freebie

Can you believe it? I can't - I don't feel a day over 21 and yet today I turned 40!! And I am loving it, great presents, great songs, yep, the boys sung to me this morning, without any help from me! So cute! All in all, a great way to turn 40. We had a joint party last Sunday when Florian turned 40, so no real celebrating today, but boy the party was great on Sunday!

Anyhow since then I have been working hard to get a new kit in the store to kick off my birthday celebrations with my Digi-Scrapping-Friends.
What do you think? This is "Garden Romance" Thanks to my lovely CT it actually has a name, up until last night the poor kit was sat on my harddrive under the name "nonameyet" poor thing!And I even managed to put together some clusterframes:


And as it is my birthday and 40 is such a great number, everything in my store is 40% off for the week! Click on the ad to go shopping!

BUT that isn't all, I put together this great freebie for you all, it coordinates with "Garden Romance" and you can pick it up free at DigitalArts-Cafe, you will have to register, but if you look around, this isn't the only freebie you will find over there! ;o)Download here

I'll be back tomorrow, with a couple of layouts to show you, and maybe I might find the time to make a quickpage for you all, so keep checking back!
CU soon (ooh and I love Birthday Wishes, so if you like my freebie, drop me a line here as there is nowhere at the store to do so! Thanks!)

A Sale, News and a Freebie

It's been a while again on this blog, but I do keep you all up to date on my life on my project 365 blog, so I hope I am forgiven!
Anyway, I was quite busy these past weeks (my CT will be surprised to hear, as they haven't had the links yet, sorry ladies)
Anyhow let me start of the post with the News that I have put all of my stuff at both stores at

30% off

to celebrate Inter-National Scrapbooking Day!
So click here (BTST) or here (DAC) to go shopping!

So and whilst you are at DigitalArts Cafe you might want to pick this up - my freebie!
When I first got the colour swatch and name of the kit I was a bit stumped, but I really, really like what I made of it! It is part of the MEGA (and I mean really MEGA) freebie that all of the DAC designers have put together for you. Melo will be releasing them one at a time, but they will all be available for the whole month of May.

Click the image to go to the store to pick up the freebie (and maybe go shopping)
I have made anything with the word Mum on in my kit in various international versions, and for my blog readers, if you would like it with even another spelling, drop me a line and I will see what I can do for you!

Now if you go shopping at BTST (any designer) and spend more than $5.00 there this weekend, you get the May Mega Collab free, and this is what I put in it for you! Inspired by the BBC programme "Mr. Maker" which the kids love watching. On there are these shape characters, which I based my little guys here on!so with all these things I am giving away, I think it is probably time that I made a kit to sell, so it might be quiet here again, but I'll be busy working away!
No, tell a lie, I'll be back soon, with some layouts - Dinphy has a new kit out that I'll want to show you too!
Bye 4 now

Hybrid Quickproject Freebie!!!

let me start off by saying - Danyale you are going to be so proud of me!!
I got the glue out today! I was surfing the digiworld (as usual) today, and found a link on Ikeagoddess' site to a GREAT hybrid mini bag project.

It was on Michelle Filo's site and it looked so great, that I couldn't wait for the boys to be having their "upstairs time" (they no longer nap, but have to give me a break) so I could try it out!
I was so happy with the result, that I went back to Michelle's site (bookmarked now by the way) and asked her if she would let me share the project with everyone - she found a great word for it a "Quickproject"! And she said YES! Isn't that kind!

So here it is!
I have uploaded it to both Mediafire and 4shared, so take your pick!

Download here from 4 shared

Down load here from Mediafire

And if you do go and see Michelle, leave her a note of thanks there too! A little thanks can go a long way!

Lots Chirpy chirpy hop hop layouts!

And a little bit about our weekend! Well, we normally open the barbecue season at Easter with Mum, Dad and my brother and family, and we will barbecue next weekend - but as the weather was so beautiful this weekend, we decided to open it a week earlier!
Which we did, BUT once the weather heard of our plans, it sent lovely dark clouds over and proceeded to rain! But it didn't put us off, we set the barbecue up under cover and barbecued our sausages and feta cheese. But it did turn rather chilly with the clouds and rain, so we ate in the kitchen, instead of outside, much to the boys disappointment. But the sausages and greek salad made up for it!

So how do you all like my new kit! I have a lot of layouts to show you

This first one is by Benita and shows her kids having great fun at Easter in 1993

These next two are by Vanessa!

And Dinphy did these two great layouts. Look at Tom having fun painting Easter Eggs, shall I be honest and admit, that my kids haven't done this before, as I am not as brave as Dinphy!

And poor Lisa, imagine finding all those chocolate eggs in the garden and then not being able to eat them! Better luck next weekend, Lisa!
Thats all for today
Bye for now

Chirpy Chirpy Hop Hop - and a Birthday Celebration

Well, I promised a surprise on April 1st, and NO it is NOT an April Fool's joke! Been There Scrapped That is turning ONE and has some new designers on board, and

YESSSSSS
I AM ONE OF THEM!!!

Can you hear me shouting it from the roof top, I am that excited!
And not only that, I have two new kits hitting my stores - First of all, I got to do a collab with Liz (Sweet Digi Scraps) imagine that, when I started "stalking" poor Liz in December 2007, who would have thought that one day I would be making a kit with her. Certainly not me! I am still so in awe. And look how cute it turned out!


You can get it here at Been there Scrapped That and it is 35% off for a little while, so grab it while you can!

But that wasn't all that I have been busy with, I also made a great Easter kit. A bit different, cause I didn't use any pastels, I wanted a kit with cute things that you can use for boys as well as girls, and this is what I came up with! (available here at BTST and here at DigitalArts-Cafe)

I love it and I hope you do too. And I got a bit carried away, so it is packed full of all sorts of fun things, and I didn't stop there, I made a freebie for you too!

5 papers, 6 elements and 1 wordart!Download from Mediafire here

There is nowhere to comment at Mediafire and although I appreciate the numbers rising, it does make my day to get a comment or two! So leave some loving here, and I'll be back in a week and will pick a random winner to get another of my kits! How does that sound!? -- I hope it doesn't sound like I am fishing for compliments (although who doesn't love a compliment or two), I just feel like RAKing someone!

now do pop over to BTST and join in all the fun. We have some great challenges going on. I'll be back often to show you all the layouts I create for the challenge.

Bye 4 now

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I have another couple of Quickpages for you, one with a mug of green beer, incase you have pictures from a parade or Irish pub ;)

Download here from my Mediafire account

And if you are interested the matching kit is still on offer for only $2.99 at DigitalArts Cafe (image linked to store)

Bye 4 now

More layouts with "Lucky Day"

I've been bad again, no post for a few days sorry about that, and I don't even have an excuse, but what I do have is some more layouts with my latest kit "Lucky Day" still on offer for $2.99!

This first one is by Vanessa and shows her darling daughter!


And this is another one from Benita of her beautiful granddaughter.

and this one is by Michelle, the journalling is very touching and if you would like to hear the story behind it, pop by Michelle's blog and maybe leave her some cheering up!

Thanks girls for these beautiful layouts with my kit!

So what else is new here, well the best news is, that Richard seems to finally be getting the idea of the potty for No. 2s!! Fingers crossed he keeps it up!
Robert seems to be a bit jealous of all the attention Richard is getting because of this, but saying that he is the biggest cheerer when Richard succeeds. But he is playing up this week badly, hopefully it will improve soon. Because I really need to make Richard feel special, and keep him wanting to carry on!

Today we put the first of our Easter decorations up in the garden, and we have our first crocuses showing and the daffodils are all shooting. I LOVE spring flowers and can't wait to see the first daffodils!
OK, time for bed now, the boys still don't get the concept of weekends, so we will be up at the usual 7am again tomorrow!

Lucky Day Free Quickpages

I had a great weekend if anyone is interested. Mum and Dad babysat the kids, whilst Florian and I had a GREAT time at my brothers concert. this time it was 80s music, it was like timetravelling. And seeing as we both turn 40 this year it was great to feel like a teenager again!

When we came back home we brought my Mum with us. So for the last couple of days I got a little bit of a lay in, as the boys went and got Nanna up rather than me! Thanks for that Mum, most appreciated! Mum was here as I had a doctors checkup at a silly time. 11.15am, now if doctors were any good at time management, I wouldn't have needed Mum to be here, but mine aren't!! I have to pick the boys up at the latest by 12.30pm and I couldn't be sure of that happening, so Mum came to help out. And a good thing to - I was home at about 1.15pm!! I got there at 11am and already they were running late and let me go shopping til 12!
But enough about that, some of you are here for a freebie! But let me show you my layouts first:
This is Richard at the weekend having some green juice - just perfect for my Lucky Day kit, don't you think!Then there is this one I made for the Font Challenge at DAC, the font is Kiralynn btw. And don't you just love the alpha - Dinphy has that as a freebie on her blog, so you might want to stop by there, after you have picked up your freebie here!
I decided to treat you all and turn these pages into Quickpages, there is plenty of room to add a title (possibly with Dinphy's alpha) and journalling on both of them.
You can download the Quickpages at the store (safer than 4shared, maybe, although I haven't had any problems!)

Click here to download

Thanks for stopping by and like Dinphy always says, if you leave a comment, you'll make me happy!

Lucky Day - My NEW KIT

I've finished!!! Yep, I have a new kit in the store, and sometime in the near future I'll have a freebie for you, but for now, just check out my new kit!
It's 20% off for this week! (images linked to the store!)And my CT (still can't believe I have one!! *grin*) have already been busy, and hey they are QUICK, they only got the kit yesterday!!! Thanks girls!
This first one is by Leigh, she took this photo last year at the July 4th Celebrations, great shot Leigh!

And this one is by Benita (she did another one too, but I'm saving that one to show you later), its her beautiful granddaughter playing. I love the out of bounds here! (Benita, also used my Nikolaus Alpha and some dice by dozi).


And Dinphy has been busy too. This is her darling daughter walking through a bed of clover! Isn't she cute!!
Thanks girls for the layouts, they are awesome, and you certainly made my day today!
bye 4 now

Sneak Peak

We had a lovely day today (after sitting around at work - I mean in the office all morning!) the weather was beautiful, so the boys and I went to the little zoo. It was fun, we haven't been since last summer, so the boys were really excited about being able to feed the animals. Richard gave the poor animals one piece of corn at a time! The poor animals!
Once back home the boys did not want to go in, so we got their bicycles out and it was more fun and games at home!
So tonight they were out like the light!
and look what I have nearly got finished!!! Here's a first sneak peak at my new kit!

Bye 4 now

All aboard the DIGITALARTS-CAFE BLOGTRAIN

and we're off!
Finally it has come around, the blogtrain, I have a little mini kit for you all, which coordinates with all the other kits on the blogtrain! It was great fun not having to think winter (everything is snowy white here). Anyhow without further chit chat (be back later with more of that!) here is your freebie

Sorry link has expired!

And if you like my kit, you LOVE Dinphy's Bragbook Pages using it! (image linked) to Dinphy's blog.

So and now where to go from here, well, back to the DigitalArts Cafe forum, where all the participating blogs are listed. But do come back tomorrow, when I'll have a Quickpage for you made by Breanne.
CU later or tomorrow

Some layouts and other things...

So I forgot to blog here again yesterday, I am getting bad, sorry about that, if you come by here looking for me, do check my Project 365 blog, I am managing to keep up with the daily photo so far.

So, my new CT have been really busy, let me show you some more layouts with my "Love is in the Air" kit - still on special til Sunday

so this first layout is by Vanessa, love all the layering of the papers and the photo is so cute! Thanks for your layout, Vanessa.
This next one is from Brianne, isn't the little darling just too cute in those glasses!

And this one is from Michelle, and you should pop by her blog if you like it, as she is offering it as a Quickpage!

And this one is from my good friend, fellow designer and CT member Dinphy. just look at the concentration on her son's face! So cute!Credits: Wordart by Elegant Wordart

And here is another one by my good friend Benita, and she made a template of this too, which you can get if you join us in the template challenge at DigitalArts Cafe

Extra credits: flower ribbon from Blossom by me
Blue flower from Special Delivery by me
Leaves by Kristin Aargard

So, it has been snowing, sleeting, raining and snowing again all day! Horrible weather, and tonight the weather has changed my TV viewing plan, as the snow is not letting me watch English TV, bother. So I have a video in "The Cutting Edge" with DB Sweeney, I used to watch this regularly, but haven't seen it for years now, but I still enjoy it!
Bye 4 now